EDUCAUSE Review Articles and Electronic Resources

The author discusses the various cultural treasures which make up part of the scholarly evidence and cultural history that is to be digitized over the coming decades.

"The dream of ubiquitous information environments may be at hand, but how well do they support
scholarly and scientific research?"

The building blocks provided by the Open Educational Resources movement, along with e-Science and e-Humanities and the resources of the Web 2.0, are creating the conditions for the emergence of new kinds of open participatory learning ecosystems that will support active, passion-based learning: Learning 2.0.

Campus IT leaders are responsible for providing a view of the technology changes that are coming over the horizon and a vision of where the “ship” of IT should be headed. The retiring EDUCAUSE president offers ten nautical maxims for charting this course for higher education IT.

The authors discuss recent studies conducted to gage the academic librarian's and faculty member's view on the increasing use and offering of electronic resources. One could conclude from the studies that the "transition to an electronic environment poses significant strategic and management challenges for higher education" and that there is a "need for libraries to take leadership in helping academia's transition to the new environment".

The author discusses the use of Shibboleth and InCommon to share electronic resources.

Making knowledge services work in higher education will depend on developments in technology and also on a variety of commitments—academic, institutional, commercial, and public policy—undertaken by a small cadre of innovative institutions and leaders.

The four corners of the e-content prognostication diamond—communications technology, the communications business, e-content development, and the e-content business—can help us understand the present and plan the future of e-content in the academic world.

The digital convergence of text, graphics, sound, and video is extending the portfolio model—a system of organizing and sharing work and engaging mentors, peers, colleagues, friends, and family in ongoing discussions and feedback—to many disciplines and programs.

The author discusses whether new digital formats of scholarly research should and will be considered valid scholarly communication by the higher education community.